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Release Date: 22 July, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Complete Cast (9 total) |
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Truly Incredible Acting By Ron Coleman!!
One can only wonder at the phenomenal work here by Coleman, and the other performances are all first rate too! With some wonderful Broadway scenes, indoor and out, this movie seems harmless and amusing enough at the beginning, until finally our handsome, debonair actor (Coleman) decides to play the super-tragic anti-hero Othello. From there, this movies turns into a virtual Jekyll & Hyde character study, as he gets into his Othello role so much, it is practically inescapable. His ex-wife as Desdomona appears to be having her own affair with the theatre manager, and even though Othello and Desdomona are remar kably friendly (at least on the surface) depite their divorce, Coleman begins to get really overwrought by the situation, and we get a feeling his recent friendship with a aspring model/ waitress, played by Winters, will somehow come to no good. Playing 2 roles, one can only and think of Coleman's role: "Now this is truly an actor's art". And the whole movie is just about as perfect!
In search of a personage!
Anthony John (Ronald Colman) is a hard obsessed actor with his stage roles being incapable to leave them in the theater. His wife Brita (Signe Hasso) will play Desdemona. Suddenly appears a pathetically lonely actress Pat (Shelley Winters)who eventually seduces him. By opening night Anthony begins to feel the same jealous madness when he is suspicious about a love affair among Brita and the play' s a gent press Bill Friend (Edmond O'Brien). After a jealous scene, he goes in search of Pat and personifies Othello lines and the madness will occur, struggling in the real life to Pat until die.
These are the dramatic premises in which Double life unfolds. This picture works out as tale of opposing forces, mirror images and deadly doubles.
Illusion versus reality.
This was the only excursion of Georges Cukor in this genre.
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